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J. S. DIGNAM.

GASTER.

No. 357,764. Patented Feb. 15,1887.

INVENTOR ATTORNEYS.

WITNESSES STATES UNITED PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN S. DIGNAM, OF LONDON, ONTARIO, CANADA.

CASTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 357,764, dated February 15, 1887,

Application filed August 13, 1886. Serial No. 210,823. (No model.)

To alZ'whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN S. DIGNAM, of London, in the Province of Ontario and Dominion of Canada, have invented a new and Improved Caster, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to certain improve ments in that class of casters wherein the cruet-carrying frames or receptacles turn upon a horizontal shaft; and the invention consists of the construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, all as hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of my new and improved caster. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the same, taken on the line 0c 02 of Fig. 1. and Fig. 3 is an inverted view of the base of the caster.

The base A of the caster is of ordinary con struction, except that it is provided with the cross piece A, for the purposes hereinafter described.

Rising from the base A are the two standards 13 B, which support the rod O at their upper ends. Upon the rod 0 are placed the two plates D D, each formed in this instance with three arms, a, and upon the inner surface of each arm a is a headed stud, b, for supporting pivotally the baskets or receptacles E, in which the cruets F are held, the said receptacles being formed or provided at their ends with claws c, for engaging with the said studs 1), as shown clearly in Fig. l. The claws c are somewhat undercut, so that the receptacles E act to tie the plates D D together; so they, together with the receptacles, constitute a frame adapted to revolve upon the rod 0, and the receptacle E being pivoted, they al.-

ways remain right side up during the complete ceive the ornamental nut 6, so that by turning the nut e the uprights B may be drawn toward each other to exert friction upon the plates D D, to prevent them from turning too easily, so they will not turn of their own accord if one set of cruets be removed from the caster.

The cross-piece A, at the bottom of the base A, is for adapting the caster to be attached to a vertical wall, as in a buffet railway-car, and for this purpose I form in the cross-bar the keyhole-shaped slots f, adapted to engage with hooks or headed studs secured in the wall or vertical surface. The cross piece A stands at right angles to the rod C, so the receptacles E will always remain in upright position whether the caster stands upon a table or is attached to a wall by the cross bar A.

The receptacles E are each provided with a handle, on, by which two cruets may be removed from the caster at a time.

I am aware of my patent dated September 23, 1884, and numbered 305,437, and claim theimp rovements thereof-as designated clearly in the following claims.

Having thus fully described my invention,

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. The cruet-receptacles E, provided with handles on, and made separate from the caster and provided with open connections for connecting the receptacles to and adapting them to be removed from the frame of the caster, substantially as described.

2. A castercomprising the base A, side uprights, B B, and horizontal axis O, fitted in the uprights and provided with a fixed head at one end and a screw-nut at the other, in combination with the side plates, D, pivoted upon the axis 0, and the cruet-reoeptacles E, held by and between the side plates, D, substantially as shown and described.

JNO. S. DIGNAM.

Witnesses:

J. Bunenss Fonnn, HENRY WARE. 

